A Jamaican plantation : the history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970 /
"Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the stu...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[1970]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The coming of the English
- Francis Price and the foundation of Worthy Park
- Consolidation and the advent of sugar, 1689-1730
- Sir Charles Price : Apogée of the Price fortune, 1730-1775
- The sugar economy of an Eighteenth-century estate
- Slave society of an Eighteenth-century estate
- Worthy Park narrowly preserved, 1775-1815
- The coming of emancipation, 1815-1834
- The losing struggle, 1834-1863
- Nadir : Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918
- Renaissance : the coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945
- Present and future.